2FA vs Passkeys Explained: Which One Actually Protects You?
The Real Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s what happens roughly 4 billion times a year: someone types a password into a website, that website gets breached, and now that password — and every other account sharing it — is exposed. The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report consistently puts stolen credentials as the number one attack vector. Year after year. You’ve probably heard that you should “turn on 2FA” or “use passkeys.” Maybe your bank sent an email about it. Maybe Apple nudged you with a popup. But when you actually sat down to do it, you hit a wall of jargon — TOTP, FIDO2, biometrics, hardware keys — and closed the tab. ...